Re: FN-FORUM: Opinions on W3C validator

date posted 24th September 2007 12:32

On 24/09/2007 12:52, Tony Crockford wrote:
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> On 24 Sep 2007, at 12:36, Gary Short wrote:
>> Agreed. I prefer Firefox over IE but this is not a browser war post its a
>> usability versus standards post and I say usability wins if one must
>> yield
>> to the other; but if you can do both then great.
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> I'm curious as to your definition of usability.
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> you make it sound like a commonly understood term, but I suspect that
> no-one would agree on what it means.
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> how does your use of the term usability differ from accessibility?
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> and in what way would a standards compliant site not be usable?
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> ;)
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My view would be, useablity is how the user does something on the site
e.g. login, if you're site requires 10 steps to login, it's not very
useable but may be standards compliant.

Accessiblity is making sure the site works in other browsers, screen
readers and on different devices. Using things like the label tag on
forms, making sure the document is well formed and compliant so if you
remove the style sheet the web page still makes sense for instance.

Martin